While 67 per cent of all migrant women are employed in the labour force, unofficial employment and the lack of gender-responsive migration policies threatens gender equalities in employment.
By Manisha Weeraddana In a small roadside hut in Nattandiya, Asoka Malini, a returnee migrant worker, spends her days with a handful of vegetables. She worked for 6 years in Saudi Arabia as a housemaid and a care worker, earning a monthly salary of LKR 20,000. As a mother of two, Asoka now faces an.
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CIPM Sri Lanka – the Nation’s leader in human resource management led by the CIPM Standing Committee on Applied Research and Knowledge Centre in collaboration with the National Committee on Women, Sri Lanka recently published a national-level research report on Female Migrant Workers: Challenges and Prospects in a Sri Lankan Perspective. The main objectives of […]
The Central Court of Appeal has ordered a Justice Ministry committee tasked with determining compensation for aggrieved parties in criminal cases to pay damages to a female migrant worker who was raped, after her request was rejected by the same committee based on the logic that she was an illegal worker.